Casey West has created WikiWYG. Wikiwyg is the simple way to add Wysiwyg editing to your existing social software project. You attach a WYSIWYG editor to any content area (div) that you wish to allow people to edit. There are three modes available for a piece of content: Wysiwyg mode – Simple, HTML, Design Mode Read the rest…

We have released CPAINT v2.0.1 for ASP and PHP. This release combines all the patches we previously released for v2.0.0. There is no new real functionality in this version, however we do recommend that all users upgrade to the new version, due to further security enhancements. Changes: A plain text response is now returned when Read the rest…

First DWR 1.0, and now the Dojo Toolkit 0.1.0 release. People have been chomping at the bit for a real release, and now we have it. The Dojo Download is located here, and you can grab different editions where you choose a package that has the elements that you want to use, as well as Read the rest…

We have great JavaScript frameworks, growing by the day, with Prototype and Dojo Toolkit. The challenge at the moment is good documentation. Sergio Pereira put together some solid Prototype documentation. Sergio goes through: the $() and $F() functions Ajax.Request Ajax.Updater Reference for prototype.js [ via Rob Sanheim ]

Ajax Pages is a scripting template engine that enables rapid development of Ajax Web-based Applications, just like GMail, Google Maps, A9 and Backpack, but without having to manipulate complicated Document Object Models to make things dynamic. If you check out the 5 minute tutorial, you will see that you create .ajp files which have JSP/ASP/PHP Read the rest…

Brennan Stehling has created a simple, cross-browser abstraction on top of the Google Maps API called GPlotter that lets you define your map markers in an XML file and have them plotted at run-time on a Google Maps window. Neat.

Alley fell in love with Rico LiveGrid when he saw it and wanted to implement it on his site. As he started on this task he items in which he wanted to change, so he has created a new prototype version: No support for the mousewheel Your html-output needs to be serialized (ie. use <a> Read the rest…

Ever since Google Maps came out, hackers came along to write Housing Maps, and many other hacks on top of the mapping infrastructure. However, what is Google made changes? Everything could break. Does Google want you to do this? Now we have answers. Google released official APIs for Google Maps. So, now we can write Read the rest…

Bill Scott of Sabre and the Rico team decided to add and release LiveGrid functionality. They want to banish NEXT/PREV from the web with this technique, which lets you use a scrollbar to automatically grab more info. You keep scrolling, it keeps fetching. Demos To see LiveGrid in action check out: Basic LiveGrid Yahoo! Search Read the rest…

The Pushlets team has added Ajax to their HTTP-based publish/subscribe framework. You can check out an example here. In the code they have functions for the various events: function leave() { doRequest(‘/pushlet/pushlet.srv?p_event=leave&p_id=’ + sessionID ); } and then the typical XHR to access the pushlet server side: function doRequest(url) { // Create XMLHttpRequest object and Read the rest…

Microsoft got hit by the Ajax term like everyone else. They have been “doing Ajax” for a long time, as many companies had been, before the Ajax term took off. If you looked at ASP.NET 2.0 (Whidbey) you would have seen Ajax all over the shop. They have components that you can drag and drop Read the rest…

Garrison Locke has updated his Ajaxian spell checker with a 2.2 release. A few of the major updates to the spell checker are: Added a Beta wrapper for aspell so you don’t have to have pspell installed. Added a preview mode (with image support) so you can see it even if you don’t have misspellings. Read the rest…

The land of Google Code has released a little library used in their Ajaxian applications (such as Google Maps and Suggest). The first piece released is Google AJAXSLT. AJAXSLT is an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. Because XSL-T uses XPath, Read the rest…